What do we already know about classroom collaboration?
Typeof Group Activity
Concernsa Teacher may have.
Strengths
How doe the group support learning?
Team problem solving, classwork tasks.
Loafers
Exposure to other learning styles, ways of knowing
Individual strengths mixed.
Lab Groups (individual writeups
Low productivity
Socialization, (Cooperation, collaboration, respect for differences)
Learning by teaching others. (sense making.)
Project Groups (notes, etc, + synthesis activity)
Chit Chat
Creativity
Benefit from multiple perspectives.
Dominant Voice
Groupthink
II. Review our Knowledge of the Learning With Peers Article
In combined groups of six, review a portion of the Peers article about collaboration as well as the notes students recorded last year. If there were points that they missed last year, please add them to their notes.
Jigsaw Activity on Collaboration
I. Introduction: What do we know (or believe) about classroom collaboration?
What do we already know about classroom collaboration?
II. Review our Knowledge of the Learning With Peers Article
In combined groups of six, review a portion of the Peers article about collaboration as well as the notes students recorded last year. If there were points that they missed last year, please add them to their notes.III. Apply Our Knowledge to Classroom Situations